Grindr keeps your personal data for as long as it considers necessary for its services and legal obligations, without specifying exact timeframes for most data categories.
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Open-ended retention periods for sensitive data including health information, sexual orientation, and location mean your most private information could be held indefinitely, increasing the risk of breach or misuse over time.
Interpretive note: The policy does not specify concrete retention periods for individual data categories, creating ambiguity about how long sensitive data is held in practice.
Renamed from 'Data Retention Policy' with new detailed excerpt explaining retention rationale and variation by information type.
View full change record →Because the policy does not specify concrete retention periods for most data categories, sensitive information such as HIV status, location history, and sexual orientation may be retained for extended periods, increasing exposure in the event of a data breach or regulatory inquiry.
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"We retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. The specific retention periods depend on the type of information and the purposes for which it is processed.Excerpt from Grindr's Privacy Policy
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: GDPR's data minimization and storage limitation principles (Articles 5(1)(c) and 5(1)(e)) require that personal data is retained no longer than necessary for specified purposes, and controllers must be able to justify retention periods.
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Open-ended retention periods for sensitive data including health information, sexual orientation, and location mean your most private information could be held indefinitely, increasing the risk of breach or misuse over time.
Because the policy does not specify concrete retention periods for most data categories, sensitive information such as HIV status, location history, and sexual orientation may be retained for extended periods, increasing exposure in the event of a data breach or regulatory inquiry.
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